The author's remark "....the assumption that good faith does not exist and that a strategic relationship with the United States, even in the changed world scenario,is harmful". Unfortunately,our diplomats who spend much of their productive lives far beyond the shores in the promised lands in the west,without fail,fall prey to the cliches prevailing in those environs.With this,they end up mouthing those same cliches with absolute conviction without realisng that the nation looks upon them to serve and protect her interest primarily and not come back to voice the urges and demands of the political thinking prevailing in the countries they were accredited to!In the case of the 123-Deal,unfortunately,not one bureaucrat has urged caution and forethought before tying the nation to the moorings of a one-sided deal.Any visitor to US can clearly see how the US economic empire treats the entire world as its subservient appendage.That is the reason that it would permanently want India to be the "receiver" while assigning to the self the role of "giver".This despite the fact that US has not spent a dollar on civil nuke tech development eversince 1978.Its civil nuke R&D infrastructure has virtually collapsed while its weapons programmes have reached frankenstein proportions.The American politics is fuelled solely by its own interests alone in exclusivity.How can anyone win (even mutually) in a deal with the US?Has any one and can anyone ever?Why do we want to kid ourselves?
